Ah yes, my favorite DOS games, Red Alert and Unreal Tournament.

Legitimately thought this was on NonCredible Defense until I read your comment and checked where I was.

My parents had #5; my grandmother had #1, I think. Why were these so ubiquitous?

I firmly believe that anything “written off” in that manner - this includes movies, too, in particular - should have to be released into the public domain as part of that process.

Any business that’s paying less taxes is harming the public good; we should at least benefit in some small way from that.

I still count The Second Dream among the best gaming experiences I’ve ever had. I agree with you that the only reason it worked is because the game was so plotless until that point, but it’s not like the game wasn’t fun until then - it was just fun for reasons other than story. If the moment to moment gameplay hadn’t been engaging, having the big reveal be tens or hundreds of hours into the experience wouldn’t have worked at all.

The game Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons is another example of this sort of thing… There’s a moment near the end that hits really hard, and I feel like the whole design discussion for the game focused on that moment and the rest of the game was just a vessel to get the player to the point where it would hit hardest, and it does a great job of that. It’s only a 4 hour experience, though, not a 40+ hour one.

Oh, man - I can do you one better. I still have one of these, still hooked up and running. We use it as a game server for some low-requirement stuff… currently Vintage Story.

If someone calls up Bank of America’s customer service and asks if they should eat a mushroom they found in their back yard, and the rep confidently tells them “yes”, do you think the response should be “Well, it’s not the rep’s fault you listened to their advice, you should have known that Bank of America isn’t a good source for mycology information”, or “That rep should have said ‘I don’t know, ask someone qualified’”?

I’d argue that it’s at least 50% on the person who gave the advice.

While I understand what you’re trying to say, it should be on the owner of the software to ensure that the AI won’t confidently answer questions it isn’t qualified to answer, not on the end user to review the documentation and see if every question they want to ask is one they can trust the AI on.

He’s doing his part!

At that point, the bank is buying the house, they’re just renting it to you for a very cheap rate, with the stipulation that you’re responsible for all of the maintenance and etc. The “purchase” is just you entering into a long-term rental agreement.

Quentin Tarantino, who wrote a character that had to suck tequila off of Salma Hayek’s toes into From Dusk Til Dawn, then cast himself in that role.

Well, this absolutely worked on me.

For what it’s worth, this wired alternative is almost identical to an xbox one controller except for the rumble motor, which is markedly lower quality. If that doesn’t bother you, it’s also less than half the price, and works out of the box in all distros I’ve tried.

No idea what building that is or what’s inside, but I love me a giant brutalist megastructure.

The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile unlocks and offers to let you switch to ‘Pretty Princess’ difficulty if you die too many times in a row.

My favorite will always be the ‘Spent 15 Hours at the Alien Strip Club’ achievement in High On Life.

That was all for “personal use”.

Pretty sure people with partners are not the target participants for this trend.

It’s only really noteworthy because it affects everyone at the same time. If everyone had an individual outage for the same duration at a random time, it wouldn’t even be noticeable in most cases.

It’s better to get pissed off than pissed on. Uh, unless you’re that guy, apparently.